subjunctive 1/suppositional mood/subjunctive 2/conditional mood
put the verbs in parentheses in the appropriate form.
1. i was terrified lest the police (to find out) i was sheltering a criminal in my barn.
2. i wish you (to cease) telling me lies! i would rather you (tell) me the bitter truth right now.
3. his last wish was that his body (to bury) in his home town.
4. and so we faced each other after three years of letter-writing as though we (to drink) beer together every afternoon for years.
5. it was arranged that she (to meet) at the station and (to drill) to the hotel.
6. it's high time all the years he has been with the company and all the hard work he has put in (to appreciate) and he (to promote).
7. providing you (to avoid) all those bad injuries, you (not; to miss) the current championship.
8. the recommendation that nobody (to leave) before saturday was received with understanding.
9. i know that you never play lotteries. but suppose you (to win) a huge jackpot, how you (to spend) it? - i would sooner (to present) it to some charitable foundation, as i don't really think that winning a lottery (to make) me happy.
10. steps must be taken so that this kind of disaster never (to happen) again.
He went into the hall, turned on the light and noticed that someone moved the scenery that he had been building for 3 weeks.
By the age of twenty-five I will already get a university diploma, open my own business, I will break up and open again, I will have a big dog and have been living in the capital for three years already.
Our team of designers has been working on this complex architectural project for the fourth month, but are ready to be shown only in half.
when you called me, I could not answer you right away, because for half an hour I was on a crowded tram, which was ten minutes late.
Марк Твен (англ. Mark Twain, настоящее имя Сэ́мюэл Лэ́нгхорн Кле́менс, Samuel Langhorne Clemens; 30 ноября 1835 года, посёлок Флорида (англ.) русск., Миссури, США — 21 апреля 1910 года, Реддинг, Коннектикут, США) — американский писатель, журналист и общественный деятель. Его творчество охватывает множество жанров — юмор, сатиру, философскую фантастику, публицистику и другие, и во всех этих жанрах он неизменно занимает позицию гуманиста и демократа.